I offered an amendment during our energy debate that wanted to make sure that when we make these allocations of the cost of the grid, that people that are actually having to pay for that receive a benefit.

I look forward to the day in the future when the batteries that are inside vehicles... are used as storage at night.

I just hope that you can work with us to form more closely if our amendment is not--if you can't work with that, I don't know why you couldn't because the 7th Circuit ruling that you applauded just said the same thing.

I don't want folks in Tennessee paying for some transmission grid to some mesa someplace that has no benefit.

I think our concern is that having some grid going to some remote area in North Dakota, which is going to have no benefit for anybody up here, that we end up, our constituents end up paying for that.

The goal of the United States in Afghanistan and Pakistan is to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaeda.

I am going to spend most of my time today trying to understand more on a go-forward basis what needs to happen from a regulatory process.

And I realize the management issue and the IT and, just look, I mean, the reason these organizations are put together is so they can work together in a more synergistic way.

I do hope--and I see the chairman has left--but, since this is so Pakistan-centric, I hope that Ann Patterson--I know she's here--will be made available and we will have hearings with her and others involved in Pakistan, maybe Petraeus.

I think the resolution piece and the too-big-to-fail piece is the most important.

On the mortgage-backed securities, we have a longstanding authorization to do that. I do not think there is any legal issue.

It's very difficult to do that without a stable, viable government of some sort.